Exactly that. So im grateful to be here. Im also grateful for the opportunity to talk with a room of leaders who have a tremendous opportunity to have impact on behalf of or our nations children. So i know were going to get to a q a, so i wont speak for long, but i wanted to first try to frame a bit about our progress that weve made over the last seven years, some of the challenges that we face and the opportunities, the tremendous opportunities ahead. Since the beginning of the administration, we have seen significant reductions in the dropout rate. Even in this room knows last year we had the highest Graduation Rate from high school that weve ever had as a country. Thats thanks to leadership from folks in this room. [applause] much of that improvement has been driven by reductions in the dropout rate for africanamerican and Latino States in particular. That is a very encouraging sign. It is encouraging sign we have tens of thousands of more students with access than before the admini
Humvees and bunkers in iraq and syria. Joins are retired Major General. And at the Brookings Institution for cms policy. Thank you for being with us. As you are there at the border. Where that fierce battle has been going on between isis militants and syrian kurds. Are you seeing any fighting going on now . What its been like in the last couple hours. Caller rig reporter right now were hearing small arms fire out of eyesight. The Kurdish Forces have managed to push isis back. Gaining key territory towards kobani. This is the effect liually the t town standing against isis. It does appear so from the cheering that perhaps the kurds have made more gains. Whatever the crowd thats been here since this fighting first broke out this close to the Turkish Border yesterday they cheer whenever the kurds manage to make significant gains. Now what the kurds are telling us is that they do want to see more Coalition Air strikes. They want to see more support here because they are barely holding isis
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